Firefox was safer and more stable, and its uptake forced Microsoft to pick up its game with better versions.

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Radioecologist Nick Beresford from Centre of Ecology and Hydrology in Lancaster explained that once in soil, caesium will become bound to mineral components, which limits its uptake into plants.

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Yet its rapid uptake since 1994, when access to the Internet first spread beyond China's elite academic and scientific circles, suggests demand will be huge.

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It was hurt both by general worries over whether academic laboratories will tighten their belts and questions over how quick the uptake of its new DNA sequencer is.

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There are concerns about the city's low uptake of immunisations and its dense population causing measles to spread.

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Last week, the NPHS said its research had shown the MMR uptake in one school in the Carmarthenshire area was as low as 14.8%.

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Once it gets the answers from friends, Uptake adds that information to its pages for each destination, which include maps, information about the places and reviews from TripAdvisor and other sites.

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